The Switchback F1 Podcast

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A Formula 1 podcast hosted by Graham Chapple and Luke Holmes, featuring race analysis, breakdowns and general shenanigans.... more

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The podcast currently has 296 episodes available.

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May 30, 2022The Switchback F1 Podcast - Episode 65: Monaco Madness (Monaco Grand Prix Review)
Graham and Luke return to break down a manic Monaco Grand Prix.
We talked about the start delays with the rain and our frustrations with race control in wet conditions (3:50)

Then we hopped into the action in the wet once the action got going (14:30)

The strategies at play when conditions shifted: Red Bull vs. Ferrari (18:03)

Sergio Perez entering the fray (29:05)

Max Verstappen's salvaged weekend (34:44)

We then hop into the other winners of the weekend including:
George Russell's understated P5 (39:22)

We then got the breaking news of Ferrari's (unsuccessful) protest against Red Bull (41:06)

Lando Norris' drive despite not being at 100% (44:10)

Alpine, Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton's weekend (44:53)

And a couple of other small winners such as Bottas' race and Sebastian Vettel (49:57)

Pierre Gasly able to make moves but a potential souring relationship at Alpha Tauri (51:15)

Losers of the weekend include:
Haas' costly race (53:20)

Daniel Ricciardo, his future, comments from Zak Brown and a discussion of who McLaren would move to hire if they moved on Ricciardo (55:22)

Lance Stroll (67:15)

Williams' struggles since Spain (72:20)

And, finally, the factors that are keeping the Monaco Grand Prix behind the curve and potentially off the F1 calendar in the future (74:44)
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1h 29min
May 23, 2022The Switchback F1 Podcast - Episode 64: The Green Bull (Spanish Grand Prix Review)
Graham and Luke return to recap an action-packed Spanish Grand Prix.
Starting with a bit of news:
Including F1 confirming a 22-race calendar, with no replacement for the Russian Grand Prix (5:29)
Then hopping into the juicy Aston Martin/Red Bull copy allegations (9:37)

We then talk about the upgrades brought to Spain, including Haas' decision to not make any major upgrades until France (19:26)
We jump then into winners and losers of the race itself:
Max Verstappen taking the lead of the championship (26:55)

Sergio Perez's frustration (29:55)

Verstappen and Red Bull now in the ascendency (35:06)

Mercedes closing the margin (39:38)

Lewis Hamilton's ridiculous calls for retire the car after Lap 5 (43:55)

Alfa Romeo carrying forward their strong form through Valterri Bottas (50:06)

Alpine's race-pace (54:42)

Lando Norris salvaging points out of a difficult weekend (57:40)

Is Yuki Tsunoda showing up Pierre Gasly? (58:44)

And a winner for the Spanish Grand Prix itself, as well as the 2022 cars (63:41)

Losers of the weekend:
Charles Leclerc losing an easy race win (67:57)

Carlos Sainz, a missed opportunity, and what will surely confirm his No. 2 status to Leclerc this season (72:51)

Points elude Mick Schumacher still (82:24)

Alex Albon's wretched result (84:10)

The Spanish Grand Prix drone camera (87:15)

We then preview the Monaco Grand Prix (93:04)
And wrapping up with a quick Indy 500 prediction (98:54)
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1h 43min
May 16, 2022The Switchback F1 Podcast - Episode 63: Around the World
Graham and Luke return on after a quiet week in the F1 world, giving a good chance to talk about all sorts of racing categories.
Starting off, we talk about Formula 2's action in Imola, including Roy Nissany's big chance/bottle, Theo Pourchaire's fortunate break to take him back to the top of the F2 table, and an underwhelming (so far) F2 season/emerging title fight (2:15).
We move onto the much more entertaining Formula 3 action at Imola and the madness there. We talked about our excitement over the current F3 grid and the much more entertaining title fight emerging there (19:50).
We then preview the Spanish Grand Prix, a weekend that will likely be dictated by the abundance of upgrades up-and-down the grid as many teams bring their first big upgrades of the year, a big weekend ahead for Carlos Sainz at home, Ferrari's potential comeback in Spain, worries surrounding Mercedes and plenty more ahead of a busy weekend at Spain (27:16).
We talk then about some random other categories and then talk about a wild Indy Car race at Indy, and our excitement over the Indy 500 (48:06).
A brief chat about the historic cars at Monaco, as well as the pain (60:56).
And, to finish some shite talk and embarrassing knowledge of the calendar, apparently (63:56).
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1h 11min
May 10, 2022The Switchback F1 Podcast - Episode 62: Welcome to Miami (Miami Grand Prix Review)
Luke returns as he and Graham recap the first ever Miami Grand Prix.
We have some quick cinema/Doctor Strange talk (2:46) before jumping into winners and losers of the race weekend.
Starting with the winners:
We talk about Max Verstappen and Red Bull closing the margins, and Verstappen climbing all-time charts in F1 (4:50)

Ferrari's double podium and why they didn't put under the SC (14:18)

Alex Albon scoring another points finish (19:16)

Alfa Romeo continuing to show the pace (22:44)

Mercedes turning a corner? (24:52)

Aston Martin showing some Saturday pace? (30:30)

Esteban Ocon's recovery (32:27)

Wiley Fernando Alonso and Mick Schumacher's weekend (before his crash with Vettel, 33:38)

Yuki Tsunoda's improving trends (36:22)
Losers of the weekend include McLaren, briefly (37:30)

Not all 'loser-talk' but we talk about the Miami GP as a whole and some of the odd antics, track changes required, the good, the bad and more (38:40)
We then talk about the W Series in Miami, drivers we're looking forward to seeing in the future, and Jamie Chadwick's path forward (52:24)
To wrap up, Luke weighs in on the Pierre Gasly conundrum from last week (62:18)
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1h 13min
May 02, 2022The Switchback F1 Podcast - Episode 61.5: The Pierre Gasly Dilemma
Graham runs solo today (Luke will be back later in the week) for a brief chat about some interesting topics, being:
The 2026 chassis changes (1:34)

And getting into the Pierre Gasly-RaceFans article and how he stacks up against the likes of Lando Norris, George Russell etc. (10:35)

We'll return for another podcast during the week to preview Miami, talk F2/F3 and more.
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30min
April 25, 2022The Switchback F1 Podcast - Episode 61: 'Eat Pasta, Go Fasta' (Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix Review)
Shoutout to Pierre Gasly's helmet for this week's episode title.
Anywho, Graham and Luke return to break down the F1 action at Imola.
Before that, we discuss Carlos Sainz's two-year extension at Ferrari (2:44) before changing things up with winners and losers, giving one loser and then one winner of the weekend.
We talked about Ferrari's disappointing weekend in front of their home fans (5:05)

Charles Leclerc's foible (7:59)

Another costly DNF for Sainz (14:40)

The swinging momentum in Red Bulls' favour (17:58)

Red Bull's revenge (20:37)

Sergio Perez emerging as a dark horse title contender? (21:32)

Max Verstappen's title defence breathing new life (23:51)

Lewis Hamilton's non-existent weekend as George Russell excels on Sunday (27:28)

Lando Norris and McLaren's turning tide (33:54)

Alpine's limited weekend (38:47)

Alfa Romeo and Valterri Bottas' startling race-pace (41:08)

Guanyu Zhou's unlucky weekend (45:57)

Aston Martin actually score points (47:04)

Mick Schumacher's trending struggles versus his teammate (49:23)

Pierre Gasly's oddly absent weekend as his teammate secures his best result of the season (52:54)

Alex Albon outperforming those around him (55:10)

Race direction decisions and DRS delays (55:30)

And, to wrap up, some Sprint format chatter and general chit-chat (59:17)
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1h 8min
April 18, 2022The Switchback F1 Podcast - Episode 60: Is F1's Oldest Jewell Replaceable?
Graham and Luke return to talk all things F1.

On the agenda this week...
Audi's surprise development (1:23)

Haas car objections (14:07)

Monaco's place on the F1 calendar long term (27:14)

Alpine open to 'loaning' Oscar Piastri and the flaws behind it (36:38)

Upgrade philosophy ahead of the weekend's race at Imola (48:27)

A preview of the weekend's action at Imola...the sprint is back! (53:23)

We disagree on Carlos Sainz's season going forward (69:09)

And, finally, we make our predictions for the race (78:52)
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1h 22min
April 10, 2022The Switchback F1 Podcast - Episode 59: A Walk in the (Albert) Park (Australian Grand Prix Review)
Graham and Luke return to break down the Australian Grand Prix.
Before that, we talk discuss a reported second Singapore Grand Prix to replace the Russian Grand Prix later in the year (2:13)

After that, we hop into winners and losers of the race weekend.
A walk in the park for Charles Leclerc and an overall excellent day for his championship (10:58)

Sergio Perez stepping up for Red Bull (19:44)

A bounce back weekend for McLaren after a difficult start to the season (26:42)

Alex Albon’s 57 lap stint to earn his and Williams’ first point of the season (33:15)

Mercedes again on-hand to pick up the pieces (40:23)

Guanyu Zhou continuing to impress in his young rookie season (45:24)

Aston Martin’s mechanics and strategy (48:47)

And a quick round-up of some minor winners including Esteban Ocon, Valterri Bottas and Pierre Gasly (51:15)

Losers of the weekend include:
Extremely damaging weekends for both Max Verstappen and Carlos Sainz, starting with the ground Verstappen now needs to make up to retain his title (53:06)

Carlos Sainz’s and Ferrari’s costly errors and the suddenly enormous potential ramifications on Sainz’s season (59:12)

Aston Martin’s absolute shambles, from practice crashes, Lance Stroll’s qualifying blunder, Aston Martin’s pace, poor races from both Sebastian Vettel and Stroll and an already unravelling season (68:56)

And, because we spent about 20 minutes talking about Aston Martin, a quick round-up of other losers of the weekend including Haas, Yuki Tsunoda, Fernando Alonso’s luck and the absolutely useless Pirelli compound race (87:57)
After that:
The track changes to Albert Park, and if they worked, before getting off-topic with safety car line/start finish line restarts before our actual thoughts on the track adjustments (91:59)

A quick Verstappen engine update after his DNF (101:45)

A lookahead to the European season (104:09)

And, a bit of Indy Car/Colton Herta talk before wrapping up.
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1h 53min
April 04, 2022The Switchback F1 Podcast - Episode 58: Viva Las Vegas
Graham and Luke return to talk, well, very little things F1 this week but, alas, topics this week include:
Las Vegas night race (2:34)

Which race may have to drop off the calendar to accommodate Vegas (10:27)

We talk Formula 2 so far in 2022 from Bahrain and Jeddah; who has stood out, disappointed etc. (17:04)

Then, we talk about Formula 3 from Bahrain and some of the stars of the future (32:09)

And, finally, we preview the Australian Grand Prix (49:35)

Some weeks are just straightforward.
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1h 5min
March 28, 2022The Switchback F1 Podcast - Episode 57: The Bulls Lift-Off (Saudi Arabia Grand Prix Review)
Graham and Luke return to break down a very entertaining Saudi Arabia Grand Prix.
With no real news to cover, we jump straight into winners and losers of the Grand Prix weekend, including:
Red Bull getting their 2022 season underway: Perez's pole and Verstappen's victory (3:20)

Ferrari salvaging a double-podium and early lead (15:09)

Carlos Sainz's disadvantage compared to some of his competitors in 2022 (17:21)

George Russell's strong weekend (20:12)

Alpine's improved pace (24:04)

McLaren picking up the pieces (27:27)

Haas getting through the weekend despite bumps and scrapes for both drivers (30:26)

The Jeddah Circuit (33:28)

Losers of the weekend include:
Lewis Hamilton (38:13)

Aston Martin letting some points slip (45:07)

Yuki Tsunoda's essentially non-existent weekend (46:29)

Nicholas Latifi's foibles, Alex Albon's grid penalty (48:38)

The rising narrative of Verstappen/Leclerc 'rivalry' and their karting days (50:17)

Slow moving stewards and marshals (52:35)

Alfa Romeo's mixed weekend (53:28)

Post-race comments and the 2022 regulations (57:00)
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1h 4min

FAQs about The Switchback F1 Podcast:

How many episodes does The Switchback F1 Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 296 episodes available.